Smoke-consumer.



J. MARKUS. SMOKE CONSUMER.

APPLICATION PILEDAUG. 30, 1911.

1,022,857. Patented Apr. 9, 1912.

INVENTOR ATTOR NBYS COLUMBIA PLANOGRAPH C0,,WASHINGTON, D. c. v

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JANOS MARKUS, OF FREEBURG, ILLINOIS.

SMOKE-CONSUMER.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JANos MARKUs, a subject of the King of Hungary,residing at Freeburg, in the county of St. Clair and State of Illinois,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Smoke-Consumers, ofwhich the following is a specification, reference being had therein tothe accompanying drawing.

This invention relates to smoke consumers, and the objects of myinvention are, first, to provide a novel apparatus for expeditiously andeconomically separating solid matter from gaseous matter; second, toprovide an apparatus that permits of the solid matter being easilyremoved after having been separated from gaseous matter; third, toprovide a smoke consumer that consists of comparatively few parts easyto assemble and inexpensive to manufacture, and fourth, to provide asmoke consuming apparatus that can be made of various sizes, theapparatus being especially designed for a small manufacturing plant;

These and such other objects as may hereinafter appear are attained by acombination of elements that will be presently described and thenclaimed.

Reference will now be had to the drawing, wherein Figure 1 is alongitudinal sectional. View of a smoke consuming apparatus, and Fig. 2is a horizontal sectional view of the same.

A smoke consuming apparatus in accordance with this invention comprisestwo sets of standards 1 and 2, the standards 1 having the upper endsthereof provided with bearings 3 for a transverse revoluble shaft 4. Thestandards 2 have the upper ends pro- ,vided with bearings 5 fora-transverse revoluble shaft 6. The shafts 1 and 6 are provided withbelt wheels 7 and passing over these wheels is an endless belt 8. Theshaft 6 has a large wheel 9 adapted to be driven by a-suitable source ofpower, whereby the shafts 4 and 6 can be operated in unison.

Arranged between the standards 1 is a foundation block 10- and arrangedbet-ween the standards 2 is a pedestal 11. The block 10 and the pedestal11 are adapted to support an irregularly-shaped body portion,

comprising a fan drum 12, a liquid drum 13,

and a longitudinally extending casing constituting a connecting portion14. This casing is made of sheet metal with detachable side walls 15which are provided with apertures Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed August 30, 1911.

Patented Apr. 9, 1912.

Serial No. 646,774.

to receive the shafts 4 and 6. The casing is arranged whereby the shafts4 and '5 will be concentric of the drums 12 and 13, and mounted upon theshaft 4 within the drum 12 is a suction fan or wheel 16. The drum 12 hasa radially disposed inlet flue 17 and the suction fan is adapted to drawsmoke and gases from said flue into the drum 12 and force the smoke andgases into the connect-ing portion 14 of the casing The drum 12 isformed at its top with a tangentially disposed outlet 17 The top of theconnecting portion 14 has an inlet opening 18 for water or other liquid,said opening being surrounded by a housing 19 normally closed by ahinged lid 20. Water or other liquid is placed in said opening into thedrum 13 and this water is agitated and thrown upwardly into theconnecting portion 14 by a water wheel 21 mounted upon the shaft 6. Theconnecting portion 14 has a vertical wall 22 provided with an opening 23in communication with distributing flues 24, andwhich also com municatewith the outlet 17 arranged within the outlet 17 of the drum 12 aretriangular-shaped vertical deflectors 25, these deflectors causing thesmoke and gases within the drum 12 to be discharged centrally into theconnecting portion 14. The water thrown into the smoke and gases isadapted to separate solid matter, as cinders, the solid matter beingprecipitated into the bottom of the drum 13 from whence it can beremoved through a discharge opening 26 that is normally closed by acover 27. The gases escape through the distributing flues 24 and in someinstances can beused for fuel pur poses.

It is thought that the operation and utility of the smoke consumer willbe apparent without further description, and while in the drawing thereis illustrated a preferred embodiment of the invention, it is to beunderstood that the structural elements thereof are susceptible to suchchanges as fall within the scope of the appended claims.

What I claim is 1. A smoke consumer comprising a suction drum having aradially disposed inlet and a tangentially disposed outlet, a liquiddrum arranged opposite the suction drum, a longitudinally extendingcasing constituting a connecting portion and opening at one end into theliquid drum and having the lower portion of its other end communicatingwith said outlet, a Wheel revolubly mounted in said liquid drum fordischarging liquid into the smoke within said casing, a plurality ofdistributing fiues communicating with that end of the casing into whichopens said outlet, a fan revolubly mounted in said suction drum, andmeans whereby said fan and wheel are operated in unison.

2. A smoke consumer comprising a suction drum having a radially disposedinlet and a tangentially disposed outlet, a liquid drum arrangedopposite the suction drum, a longitudinally extending casingconstituting a connecting portion and opening at one end into the liquiddrum and having the lower portion of its outer end communicating withsaid outlet, a wheel revolubly mounted in said liquid drum fordischarging liquid into the smoke within said casing, a plurality ofdistributing flues communicating with that end of the casing into whichopens said outlet, a fan revolubly mounted in said suction drum, meanswhereby said fan and wheel are operated in unison, and triangular-shapedvertical deflectors mounted in said outlet. I

3. A smoke consumer comprising a suction drum having a radially disposedinlet and a tangentially disposed outlet, a liquid drum arrangedopposite said suction drum, a 1ongitudinally extending casingconstituting a connecting portion and opening at one end into the liquiddrum and having the lower portion of its other end communicating withsaid outlet, a Wheel revolubly mounted in said liquid drum fordischarging liquid into the smoke within said casing, a plurality ofdistributing flues communicating with that end of the casing into whichopens said outlet, a fan revolubly mounted in said suction drum, meanswhereby said fan and wheel are operated in unison, triangular-shapedvertical deflectors mounted in said outlet, and means for facilitatingthe removal of solid matter from said liquid drum.

4. A smoke consumer comprising a suction drum having a radially disposedinlet and a tangentially disposed outlet, a liquid drum arrangedopposite the suction drum, a longitudinally extending casingconstituting a connecting portion and opening at one end into the liquiddrum and having the lower portion of its other end communicating withsaid outlet, a wheel revolubly mounted in said liquid drum fordischarging liquid into the smoke within said casing, a plurality ofdistributing flues communicating with that end of the casing into whichopens said out let, a fan revolubly mounted in said suction drum, meanswhereby said fan and wheel are operated in unison, the bottom of saidcasing being arcuate in longitudinal section.

In testimony whereof I atfix my signature in the presence of twowitnesses.

JANOS MARKUS.

Witnesses:

J OSEPH C. BECKER, JOSEPH LINDER, Jr.

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Washington, D. G.

